A Congolese diplomat’s wife told a Romanian court that her husband told her to smuggle cigarettes into Romania from Serbia.

Cooperation between Serbia and Montenegro over an investigation into an alleged drug trafficker faltered last year, according to a recently leaked U.S. State Department Cable.

Armenia’s chief of traffic police Colonel Margar Ohanian was formally dismissed on Wednesday following his arrest on corruption allegations.

WikiLeaks, the organization famous for posting records that have been pried from government archives, has had their own archive pried from them.  They confirmed Thursday that they lost control of a trove of unreleased documents with names of confidential informants from countries including Afghanistan, Iran, and China.  These names were usually redacted before being printed in WikiLeaks’ partner newspapers.

Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader has been indicted for corruption following an investigation into lucrative business deals involving state-owned enterprises.

Cables leaked from the U.S. Embassy in Albania written in 2009 reveal that concern about corruption at all levels of Albanian government led officials to withdraw substantial portions of aid money.

The European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) has announced that an American Prosecutor will be investigating allegations that Kosovan Prime Minister Hashim Thaci oversaw a network of organ traffickers during the war in that country from 1998-1999.

A retired policeman has been arrested in connection with the 2006 murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

An investigative committee put out a statement Wednesday  alleging that Lt. Colonel Dmitry Pavlychenkov, who served at the time of Politkovskaya’s death as a senior Moscow police investigator, had received cash from an unknown source to orchestrate the murder.

Confessions a Russian national on trial in the U.S. for arms smuggling made immediately after he was arrested will not be used as evidence against him.

A suburban mayor who accused local businessmen and officials of corruption on public television was killed Monday outside of his father's home.